corruption

National

Trump voters call president's pardon of corrupt Virginia sheriff 'a terrific mistake'

6:55pm June 02, 2025

by Frank Langfitt

Many in Virginia's Culpeper County are unhappy with the president's pardon of a sheriff convicted of bribery. Trump called him a victim "persecuted by the Radical Left 'monsters' and 'left for dead.'"

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Mother and two children struck and killed by a vehicle in Brooklyn, New York: driver operating suspended license

National

Federal judge drops corruption case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams

9:43am April 02, 2025

Adams was scheduled to go on trial in April until new leadership at the Justice Department under the Trump administration ordered prosecutors in New York in February to drop the case, sparking a public outcry and resignations of prosecutors.

Former Singapore minister sentenced to a year in prison in rare corruption case

4:51am October 03, 2024

Subramaniam Iswaran is the first Singaporean minister to be jailed in almost fifty years. A case that has shocked a country famed for its squeaky-clean reputation.

World News

In a remote Indian state, trading cash and gifts for votes is an open secret

1:31pm May 31, 2024

by Omkar Khandekar

India's election commission says bribery is one of the biggest challenges to free and fair elections. In tiny Arunachal Pradesh, some voters receive the equivalent of up to a year's average earnings.

Feb. 21, 2021: Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny shows a heart symbol standing in the cage during a hearing to a motion from the Russian prison service to convert the suspended sentence of Navalny from the 2014 criminal conviction into a real prison term in the Moscow City Court in Moscow, Russia.

World News

Photos: See Russian anti-corruption leader Alexei Navalny's life in pictures

2:41pm February 16, 2024

The Russian opposition leader was a prominent critic of Vladimir Putin. He was known for organizing nationwide protests against election fraud and government corruption.

Investigation officials from Tokyo's district prosecutors office head to an office of a Liberal Democratic Party faction led by politician Toshihiro Nikai, on Tuesday.

World News

Party bosses fall in Japan's worst political corruption scandal in decades

11:55am December 22, 2023

by Anthony Kuhn

Japan's governing Liberal Democratic Party replaced two of its top executives as part of a purge related to investigations into alleged political slush funds.

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Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., and his wife Nadine Menendez arrive for the State Dinner with President Joe Biden and India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the White House on June 22 in Washington.

Politics & Government

Democratic Sen. Robert Menendez has been indicted on federal corruption charges

3:46pm September 22, 2023

by Jaclyn Diaz

The indictment accuses Menendez of accepting "hundreds of thousands of dollars of bribes in exchange for using" his power and influence to enrich him, his co-defendants and the government of Egypt.

Lorena Villavicencio, sister of slain presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio, embraces her husband outside the morgue where her brother's body is being held, in Quito, Ecuador, Thursday, Aug. 10, 2023.

World News

Ecuador arrests 6 Colombians in slaying of presidential candidate

2:00am August 11, 2023

by The Associated Press

Ecuador's evolution into a major drug trafficking hub and the ensuing surge of violence weighs on the nation following the killing of a presidential candidate whose life's work was to fight crime.

Keiko Fujimori, daughter of former President Alberto Fujimori, waits at the Barbadillo prison in Lima, Peru, on March 30, 2022.

World News

All the prison's presidents: Peru's special jail for ex-leaders is all full up

1:35pm July 09, 2023

by John Otis

In Peru, so many former leaders have been accused of crimes that the country has designated a small prison specifically to house them. It's a symbol of corruption, but also of political dysfunction.

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Demonstrators burn flares and smoke bombs outside the Ukrainian parliament in Kyiv on June 5, 2020, during a demonstration calling for the interior minister's resignation over corruption suspicion.

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Ukraine's fight against corruption isn't new. It's still trying

9:21am January 27, 2023

by Julian Hayda

The Ukrainian government's recent shake-up drew attention to corruption allegations implicating senior officials. Here's a short history of the country's efforts to combat graft.